Harvey v. Rome Scale & Manufacturing Co.

Nolan Harvey sued the Rome Scale & Manufactur*572ing Company for damages on account of personal injuries. At the conclusion of the evidence in his behalf, the trial judge awarded a nonsuit; and this is the error complained of. The plaintiff was employed as a helper by the defendant, and, while helping a blacksmith at the forge in the defendant’s shop, his eye was injured by a piece of metal flying in it. In the petition he alleges, as the specific cause of the injury, that the blacksmith whom he was helping struck with a hammer a piece of iron on the anvil, "and, as he did so, a piece of iron…